Window-shade holder.



A. G. HARRIS.

WINDOW SHADE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 10, 1912.

1 ,O48,69 1 Patented Dec. 31, l9l2.

Inventor Attorneys Witnesses UNITED @TAILE S IKIENT UFFICE.

ALBERT G. HARRIS, OF GR-EENVILLE, TEXAS.

winnow-snnnn HOLDER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT G. Ilamus, a citizen of the United States, residing at Greenville, in the county of Hunt and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Window-Shade Holder, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject-n'iatter of this application is adapted to be employed for supporting a window shade from the window-sash, the construction being such that when the sash is raised and lowered, the shade will be raised and lowered also, thereby permitting a ventilation. The construction is such that when the window-sash is lowered to provide ventilation, the shade is lowered, so that the draft of air through the window will not whip and injure the shade.

The invention aims to provide an arm of novel and improved form, to provide a bracket with which the arm is adjustabl y assembled, to provide novel means for operatively connecting the arm and the bracket for adjustment, to provide an arm having a lateral head of novel and improved form, which head constitutes a means for upholding a shade-support, and to provide novel means for operatively upholding a shadesupport.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings,liigure 1 shows the invention in elevation; Fig. 2 is a side elevation, parts being sectioned; Fig. 3 is a perspective of the bracket; Fig. 1 is a perspective of the arm; Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the arm and of the bracket, parts being broken away; and Fig. 6 is an end elevation of the arm, parts being broken away.

In the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a window frame, in which a window-sash 2 is mounted to slide vertically, as is usual and common.

The invention includes a bracket, denoted generally by the numeral 3, the bracket 3 comprising an arm 1 and an angularly disposed brace 5', united adjacent their outer Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 10, 1912.

Patented Dec. 31, 1912. Serial No. 696,523.

ends by means of a rivet or like securing means, the arm 4; and the brace 5 being provided with laterally extended feet 7 in which there are openings 8 adapted to receive securing means 9 whereby the bracket 3 is assen'ibled with the window-sash 2.

The arm 4 of the bracket 3 provided intermediate its ends and in its upper edge with a notch 10 at the base of which a de pending finger 11 is formed. In the outer end of the arm 1; of the bracket a notch 12 is formed, the material which is removed in the formation of the notch 1.2 being bent upwardly to form an upstanding finger 14; adjacent the free outer end of the bracket 3.

The invention further includes an arm, denoted generally by the numeral 15. The lower edge 16 of the arm 15 is adapted to ride along the finger 14, there being a shoulder 17 at one extremity of the edge 16, which shoulder 17, en aging the finger 14:, constitutes a means for limiting the outward sliding movement of the arm .15 upon the bracket The arm 15 is provided in its upper edge with a shoulder 18, and adjacent the shoulder 18 there are a series of upstanding projecting teeth 19, adapted to be engaged successively with the finger 11. The projections 19 constitute a means for step by step adjustment between the arm and the bracket, and the shoulder 18 constitutes a means, engageable by the finger 11., for limiting the inward sliding movement of the arm 15 upon the bracket 3. As will be understood readily, the finger 14L constitutes a. fulcrum upon which the arm 15 may be tilted to remove the teeth 19 of the arm from engagement with the finger 11, whereupon the arm 15 may be slid longitudinally upon the bracket, to eitect an adjustment between the arm and the bracket.

The arm 15 terminates in its outer end in a laterally extended head adapted to receive a shade-support. In fashioning this head, the arm 15 is carried laterally to form an extension 20, folded upon itself diagonally as indicated at 21, to form a reinforcing member 20, the reinforcing member 20 being sharply bent upon itself to form a finger 22. Thus, it will be seen, that the laterally extended. head which is fashioned at the outer end of the arm 15 is a dmible-walled structure. Projecting laterally from the reinforcing member 20 is a lug or projection 21 extended across the bend at the lower end of the head, the projection 21 extending across one edge of the finger 22, as will be understood most clearly from an inspection of Fig. 4.

The invention further includes a longitudinally extensible shade-support, the shade-supportcomprising overlapped members 23 having fingers 2d, the fingers 2 1 of one member 23 overlapping the other member 23, so that a sliding adjustment between the members 23 may be afforded. The members 23 are provided in their lower edges and adjacent their ends with notches 23 The shade-roller is preferably, although not necessarily, of the well known Hartshorn type, and is denoted by the numeral 25, the roller 25 terminating in the usual spindles 26, the spindles 26 being received within lateral extensions 27, formed at the ends of the members 23 and disposed at right angles to these members. As is common, one of the spindles 26 is held for rotation in one part 27, the other spindle 26 being held against rotation in the other head. Obviously, if desired, a form of curtain roller other than the roller 25 may be employed. The members 23 of the shade-support are engaged by the laterally extended heads which are formed at the outer ends of the arms 15, each member 23 being engaged be tween the finger 22 and the reinforcing member 20. The members 23 rest at their lower edges upon the projections 21, and it will be seen that the notches 23 are adapted to engage the projections 21, so that the shade-support may be held at any desired length.

In practical operation, the bracket 3 is applied to the window-sash 2 by means of the securing elements 9. The arm 15 is then tilted with the finger 12 as a fulcrum until the teeth 19 are disengaged from the finger 11, whereupon the arm 15 is slid longitudinally of the bracket 3 until the rectangularly disposed head which is fashioned at the outer end of the arm is positioned properly with respect to the outer face of the window frame 1, as will be understood readily from an inspect-ion of Fig. 1. After this desired adjustment has been obtained, the finger 11 may be engaged between a pair of the teeth 19. The shade-support, comprising the members 23, is engaged between reinforcing members 20 of the arm 15 upon the one hand and the finger 22 upon the other hand, the notches 23 in the shadesupport engaging the projections 21. The support may be elongated or be reduced in length, until the heads 27 are positioned properly to receive the spindles 26 of the shade-roller 25. From the foregoing it will be seen that I have devised a novel and useful structure which may be assembled readily with a window-sash, the construction being such that an adjustment transversely of the plane of the sash may be effected, so that the head at the outer end of the arm 15 may be placed properly with respect to the outer face of the window frame 1. The device is so constructed that it may be applied to window-sashes of different widths, and shade-rollers of difierent lengths may be mounted readily in the structure, owing to the telescopic form given to the shade support, and involving the parts 23 and their fingers 21. When the window-sash 2 is lowered, the curtain is lowered also, thereby affording ventilation and light at the top of the window and preventing a whipping of the curtain or shade in the wind. By lowering the window-sash 2 the curtain which is upheld by the sash may be made to shield the lower sash of the window, and at the same time, ventilation and light will be afforded at the upper end of the window.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is z- 1. In a device of the class described, a bracket; a curtain-supporting arm applied to one side face of the bracket; fingers depending from the bracket and adapted to engage the upper and the lower edges of the arm, respectively, the arm being provided with projections adapted to engage one finger to provide for a step by step adjustment of the arm, the arm being provided in its edge with a shoulder adapted to engage one finger to limit the adjustment of the arm longitudinally of the bracket.

2. In a device of the class described, a bracket; a curtain-supporting arm applied to one side face of the bracket, the bracket being provided with oppositely projecting fingers adapted to engage the upper and lower edges of the arm, respectively, to hold the arm against vertical tilting movement, the arm being provided in its lower edge with a shoulder adapted to engage one finger to limit the outward movement of the arm upon the bracket, the arm being provided in its upper edge with a shoulder adapted to engage the other finger to limit the inward movement of the arm, there being teeth in the arm adjacent the last mentioned shoulder and adapted to engage the finger with which the shoulder cooperates, to afford a step by step adjustment of the arm longitudinally of the bracket.

3. In a device of the class described, a bracket; an arm mounted for movement upon the bracket longitudinally of the bracket and provided with a rectangularly disposed, double-Walled head; interengaging elements upon the bracket and upon the arm for limiting the vertical tilting movement of the arm; and a shade-support removably mounted between the walls of the head.

4;. In a device of the class described, a bracket; an arm applied to the bracket and provided with an angularly disposed, double-Walled head; interengaging elements upon the bracket and upon the arm for supporting the arm against vertical tilting movement, for limiting the sliding move ment of the arm u on the bracket, and for providing a step y step adjustment be tween the arm and the bracket; and a shadesupport mounted between the Walls of the head.

5. In a device of the class described, a shade-supporting arm provided With a lateral extension folded upon itself to form a reinforcement, the reinforcement being sharply bent upon itself to define a finger, the finger and the reinforcement constituting cooperating elements adapted to receive shade-supporting means; and means for connecting the arm with a supporting structure.

6. In a device of the class described, an arm provided With a lateral extension folded transversely upon itself to form a reinforcement, the reinforcement being bent sharply upon itself to define a finger, the reinforcement havin a projection extended transversely of the finger; a shade-support located between the reinforcement and the finger and having means to engage the projection; and means for securing the arm to a support.

7. In a device of the class described, an arm provided with a laterally extended, U-shaped head, there being a projection extended across the bend of the head; a shadesupport engaged against longitudinal movement upon the projection and engaged against transverse movement in the head; and means for securing the arm to a supporting structure.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

ALBERT G. HARRIS.

\Vit-nesses J IMMIE STRONG, J. D. KEY.

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